Epicurus believed that if there were gods they took no interest in human beings, but caused only aggravation to one another up there on Mount Olympus. People had been killed for not being superstitious, so it was wise to allude to the gods existing, even if you knew it was a charade. Personally, I think …
Yet another conservative think tank has been established in Washington DC, called the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP, as they call themselves). They intend to concentrate their attention on people with below-median incomes or net worth, looking at conservative market principles and harnessing or bending them to help Americans struggling to survive in …
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, among the world’s 10 wealthiest couples, with a net worth of $55.2 billion, have announced a $3 billion effort to accelerate scientific research with the ambitious goal of “curing all disease in our children’s lifetime.” They will be giving away 99 percent of their Facebook shares …
Non-tenure track teaching staff – commonly referred to as adjuncts – now make up approximately 70% (yes, you read it correctly) of all teaching staff in American higher education. This means that roughly three out of every four courses an American student takes are taught by someone without job security who is working on minimal …
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“May not the goose say thus: All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly …
